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Dinah Assouline Stillman received two "licences d'enseignement et de littérature"( BAs) from the Sorbonne in English and Hebrew and a Diplôme Supérieur in Modern Hebrew from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris (INALCO). She also received a Master's Degree in Hebrew Linguistics from the Sorbonne. She holds a CAPES in English from the French Ministry of Education and taught English for twenty years in Paris. She was part of a team that created educational CDroms in English for French students. In 2002, she received the DUDL (Diplôme Universitaire de Didactique des Langues) for teaching French as a Foreign Language from the Sorbonne (PARIS III) and came to teach at OU.

She loves teaching a variety of courses such as FR3803 Advanced Conversation and Phonetics, FR2243 Conversation and Literature. Most of all she loves creating new courses such as FR3753 French Culture through Film in 2004, which is taught every semester, or La représentation des femmes dans les films français et francophones in 2005. Her recently created course, FR2263 French Culture through Songs, aims at acquiring the language, written and oral, through the study of La Chanson Française from its beginnings to this day. It will be taught again in 2009. Her interest in French and Francophone literatures and cultures is deepening along with the study of recent cinema. Since 2005, she has been part of the FilmFest reviewers for the Annual MESA Conference, and has been serving on the same FilmFest Committee since 2006. She also is a Film and Video Studies and a SIAS faculty adjunct.